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A Very Old Story (1968)

A Very Old Story (1968)

Fantasy Family
Release Date: 1968, December 31
Directors: Nadezhda Kosheverova
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Lenfilm
Cast: Marina Neyolova, Oleg Dal, Georgiy Vitsin, Georgi Georgiu, Georgiy Shtil, Vladimir Etush, Lev Lemke, Vera Titova, Anatoly Korolkevich, Anatoli Abramov, Viktor Perevalov

Overview:

Based on the famous fairytale "The Tinderbox" by Hans Christian Andersen. The main character of the film is a puppeteer who lives in a poor and gray world. He composes a fairy tale in which he himself, in the guise of a brave soldier, finds a flint and is helped by a kind wizard. The soldier falls in love with a spoiled, capricious princess who, as befits a princess, poses riddles to her numerous suitors. Her father, the king, is eager to see the soldier as her husband, as he believes the soldier has a great deal of gold. In the fairy tale, everything ends well, but in real life, not so much. "But life is not a fairy tale," his beloved girl says to him as she bids him farewell.